Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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priority

UK /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/ · US /pɹaɪˈoɹəti/ noun

Forms priorities

  1. noun An item's relative importance. “He set his e-mail message's priority to high.”
  2. noun A goal of a person or an organisation. “She needs to get her priorities straight and stop playing games.”
  3. noun The quality of being earlier or coming first compared to another thing; the state of being prior. “In bankruptcy law, a business' debt to its employees has priority over its debt to a landlord, so the employees must be paid first.”
  4. noun (taxonomy, of a name) A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date.
  5. noun Precedence; superior rank.
  6. noun (transport) Right of way; The right to pass (an intersection) before other road users.

Synonyms

dignity eminence seniority superiority anteriority precedence precedency antecedence antecedency

Antonyms

disfocus posteriority

Etymology

From Old French priorite, from Latin priōritās.
Surface analysis: prior + -ity.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application.
  2. noun Precedence; superior rank. Shak. Priority of debts, a superior claim to payment, or a claim to payment before others.

Etymology [Cf. F. priorité. See Prior, a.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “priority”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “priority” (best matches first).

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